by ADAM BEAM, Associated Press – FRANKFORT, KY. — The little girl was 11, living in a foster care group home, when she ended up playing tag in a Louisville park with the daughters of a wealthy investment manager who would one day be Kentucky’s governor. Matt Bevin said he and his wife, Glenna, noticed how the…
by Andrew Wolfson , @adwolfson – The U.S. attorney’s office had decided it won’t prosecute Dr. David Dunn and two other former University of Louisville executives who were under investigation for allegedly misusing federal money for non-university purposes, their lawyers say. The Courier-Journal reported in December 2015 that the FBI was investigating whether Dunn, executive vice president for health…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Officials are seeking qualified candidates to serve on boards that oversee colleges in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. A statement from Gov. Matt Bevin’s office says there is an immediate need for applicants to serve these schools: Ashland, Big Sandy, Bluegrass, Elizabethtown, Gateway, Hazard, Henderson, Hopkinsville, Jefferson, Madisonville, Maysville, Owensboro,…
BY BILL ESTEP, bestep@herald-leader.com – A federal health agency wants to speed up research on non-addictive painkillers to help stem the epidemic of drug abuse in the nation. The National Institutes of Health plans to develop partnerships between public agencies and private businesses in hopes of cutting the time to develop treatments in half, Dr. Francis Collins…
by Krystle Callais – PADUCAH, KY – West Kentucky Community and Technical College will be inaugurating its president officially on Friday.Dr. Anton Reece has been serving as president of the college since October, but has not been formally inaugurated in the position. An inauguration will be held on Friday, April 21 to formally name him the college…
by RANDY PATRICK, The Kentucky Standard – Dick Heaton is Bardstown’s new mayor, taking over after former Lexington police officer John Royalty was booted from the job. All five of Heaton’s fellow City Council members voted Tuesday afternoon to affirm the former mayor to serve once again as the city government’s chief executive for the remainder of the current term,…
FRANKFORT, KY (AP) –Republican House Speaker Jeff Hoover has appointed a task force of lawmakers to study how to improve Kentucky’s adoption and foster care system. The bipartisan committee will be led by Democratic state Rep. Joni Jenkins of Louisville and Republican Caucus chairman David Meade of Stanford. Hoover has asked the committee to have…
by JOHN CHEVES, jcheves@herald-leader.com – April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Unfortunately for Kentucky children, reports of abuse and neglect have increased dramatically in recent years, in part because of rampant drug abuse. These numbers illustrate the problem. 55% The number of substantiated child abuse and neglect findings in Kentucky has steadily risen from 9,934 in fiscal 2012 to…
by Don Weber – MOREHEAD – The Ronald G. Eaglin Space Science Center, on the campus of Morehead State University, is at the heart of the heart of MSU’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences, one of only five such programs in the nation where students and faculty have used the centers facilities to develop, test, validate and operate…
by ASSOCIATED PRESS – Some local leaders in Kentucky want to build a drug rehab center to hopefully reduce a county jail’s overcrowding problem. The Madison County Detention Center houses 400 inmates in a facility designed to hold 184. Judge Executive Reagan Taylor said 80 percent of the inmates are in jail for drug-related offenses. He…